Apple Pear Galette

My sweet tooth will be my undoing! Once a meal is over, the itch to eat something sweet is almost unbearable. So I forage to assuage that yen. Most days I end up eating a healthy option, fruit or yogurt. The flip side is to buy or make dessert. Hence this fruit galette. 

I start with slicing a pear and apple. After all, it is a tart meant for two. To make life easier, I use a frozen short crust pastry. Sacrilege, says those who make from scratch! When you find a decent frozen pastry, go ahead, use it. It is so much more simple to buy a good pastry than to make pastry for two. The end result is all that matters. I gather the defrosted pastry into a ball and roll it out to circle. Depending on your mood, fruit can be artfully arranged or just piled in the center. The edges are then folded over the fruit to form a border. Baked in a hot oven, the galette emerges golden brown. So tempting, so good.

APPLE AND PEAR GALETTE

Serves 2

1 frozen Short Crust Pastry (homemade or store bought)

1 Apple

1 Pear

1 teaspoon Cornstarch

3 tablespoons Sugar

A pinch of Kosher Salt

A pinch of Cinnamon

1 teaspoon Lemon Zest

a squirt of Lemon Juice

1 teaspoon Butter

1 Egg, beaten well

Sugar

Defrost pastry. 

Peel and pare apple and pear. Cut both into 1/2 inch slices. Place in a bowl.

Add cornstarch, sugar, salt, cinnamon. lemon zest and juice to fruit. Stir gently to mix. 

Dust the counter with a little flour. 

Take pastry out of the container and gather it into a ball. Knead a couple of times to get a smooth finish.

Roll out the pastry to an 8" circle. It doesn't matter if the edges are uneven. 

Gather the pastry onto the rolling pin and transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet. 

Arrange the fruit in concentric circles, making sure to leave a 1/2" border on the outer edge of the circle. Or just pile the slices in the center of the pastry.

Lift the border and bring it over onto the fruit. Fold and press the border as you go around the circle. 

Heat oven to 400F/220C.

Refrigerate the galette for 15 minutes or till the oven is ready.

Brush the edges generously with beaten egg.

Dust the egg with a little sugar.

Drop bits of butter all over the fruit.

Bake for 45 minutes.

Take it out of the oven, cool for 5 minutes, then cut yourself a wedge!

I can only extoll the virtues of good store bought pastry. The galette is super simple to make, so easy to bake and a delicious reward for that sweet tooth!

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